Sketches of the History of Man: Considerably Enlarged by the Last Additions and Corrections of the Author. ...J. J. Tourneisen, 1796 - 376 páginas |
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... bards were as common as potters or joiners , and as liable to envy . Demodocus is mentioned by Homer as a celebrated bard " . and Phemius , another bard , is introduced by him deprecating the wrath of Ulyffes , in the following words ...
... bards were as common as potters or joiners , and as liable to envy . Demodocus is mentioned by Homer as a celebrated bard " . and Phemius , another bard , is introduced by him deprecating the wrath of Ulyffes , in the following words ...
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... bards . The following quotation is from Ammianus Marcellinus " . " Bardi quidem " fortia virorum illuftrium facta , heroicis compo- " fita verfibus , cum dulcibus lyræ modulis , can- " titarunt . " We have for our authority Father ...
... bards . The following quotation is from Ammianus Marcellinus " . " Bardi quidem " fortia virorum illuftrium facta , heroicis compo- " fita verfibus , cum dulcibus lyræ modulis , can- " titarunt . " We have for our authority Father ...
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... Bards were the only hiftorians before writing was introduced . Tacitus " fays , that the fongs of the German bards were their only annals . And Joannes Magnus , Archbishop of Upfal , acknowledges that in compiling his hiftory of the ...
... Bards were the only hiftorians before writing was introduced . Tacitus " fays , that the fongs of the German bards were their only annals . And Joannes Magnus , Archbishop of Upfal , acknowledges that in compiling his hiftory of the ...
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... bards : which distinguishes the pro- feffion of a poet from that of a bard . Homer , in a lax fenfe , may be termed a bard ; for in that character he ftrolled from feast to feast . But he was not a bard in the original fenfe he indeed ...
... bards : which distinguishes the pro- feffion of a poet from that of a bard . Homer , in a lax fenfe , may be termed a bard ; for in that character he ftrolled from feast to feast . But he was not a bard in the original fenfe he indeed ...
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... bards , being universal favorites , were certainly the first compofitions that writing was employed upon : they would be carefully collected by the moft fkilful writers , in order to preferve them in perpetual re- membrance . The ...
... bards , being universal favorites , were certainly the first compofitions that writing was employed upon : they would be carefully collected by the moft fkilful writers , in order to preferve them in perpetual re- membrance . The ...
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